Opinion

  • Now that the election is over, what now?

    Now that the election is over, what now?

    Last month my candidate lost the election free and clear, at least in the Electoral College. (That’s a topic for another day.) My concern here isn’t why the election shook out the way it did. Many commentators far smarter than I have exhausted that subject (and some of us) without…


  • Chairman Lowery says the Lumbee Tribe stands with Sen. Tillis in the face of ‘attacks’ by Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

    Chairman Lowery says the Lumbee Tribe stands with Sen. Tillis in the face of ‘attacks’ by Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

    For nearly 140 years, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has been petitioning the United States government for full and unconditional recognition as a Federally recognized Indian tribe.


  • Blocking Wounded Knee Bill for Lumbee recognition support undermines fairness

    Blocking Wounded Knee Bill for Lumbee recognition support undermines fairness

    A recent objection by US Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina against the Wounded Knee Memorial bill introduced by Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota demonstrates the inability to understand fairness.


  • Richard Hudson: We have a mandate and it’s time to get to work

    Richard Hudson: We have a mandate and it’s time to get to work

    Nov. 5, 2024, is a historic day that will always be remembered as the day the American people delivered a resounding mandate — a mandate to get our country back on track.


  • Richard Hudson: Cracking down on open borders and standing up for your safety

    Richard Hudson: Cracking down on open borders and standing up for your safety

    This Veterans Day, we honor and recognize the best among us – our brave men and women who have worn our nation’s uniform.


  • NC constitutional amendment is unnecessary

    NC constitutional amendment is unnecessary

    To the Editor,


  • Rob Schofield | Hurricane Helene sounds the climate and infrastructure alarm bells yet again

    Rob Schofield | Hurricane Helene sounds the climate and infrastructure alarm bells yet again

    Tempting as it might be for those who’ve long watched, worried and warned about the increasingly destructive impacts of climate change, the massive – what many are describing as “Biblical” – destruction wrought last week by Hurricane Helene is not a moment for lengthy “I-told-you-so’s.”


  • Allison Danielsen | The manufacturing workforce in the US is in crisis

    Allison Danielsen | The manufacturing workforce in the US is in crisis

    As we were preparing for the International Manufacturing Technology Show — IMTS 2024 — last month in Chicago, the largest gathering of the creators, builders and drivers of manufacturing in the Western Hemisphere, news came out that Apple CEO Tim Cook had made a startling statement about America’s workforce.


  • Richard Hudson: Cracking down on open borders and standing up for your safety

    Richard Hudson: Cracking down on open borders and standing up for your safety

    The Biden-Harris Administration and the Democrats’ dangerous open border and soft-on-crime policies have made communities across America less safe. House Republicans recently took action to protect you, your family, and your tax dollars from paying the painful price of the Left’s radical, dangerous agenda.


  • Richard Hudson: Neighbors helping neighbors

    Richard Hudson: Neighbors helping neighbors

    It breaks my heart to see the devastation brought to our beautiful state and all those impacted by Hurricane Helene. The damage is unbelievably catastrophic and communities across Western North Carolina face a long road to recovery, but we will be with them every step of the way.


  • Richard Hudson: Three years since the horrific Abbey Gate attack

    Richard Hudson: Three years since the horrific Abbey Gate attack

    It’s been three years since the Harris-Biden Administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan resulted in the horrific Abbey Gate terrorist bombing – the deadliest attack on Americans since 2011. But we will never forget.


  • Trump/Cyrus delusion, distortion of Christianity

    Trump/Cyrus delusion, distortion of Christianity

    On Jan. 6, 2021, six permissions for demonstrations were issued in Washington, D.C., four of which were to Christian groups. We all know now that these demonstrators launched an attack on the Capitol to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Although the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys have received most…


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